During a time which Paul and I playfully refer to as our masters program in counselling, our counsellor asked me to come up with two illustrations. The first was to show the person I wanted to be; the traits and characteristics of myself which I wanted to promote and refine. The second was to be about the things which I didn’t want to be, the roles and jobs which I took on and sucked the life out of me.
Of course, I procrastinated.
So I found myself at work, with only the time for our drive to our counselor’s office and what I had on hand to work with. On my desk I had this Batman and Joker action figure and my desk neighbor graciously let me borrow a few sharpies.
At the very least the look on our counsellors face when I pulled these two out was an awesome mix of slight surprise and dismay. As the conversation progressed, I don’t know if I could have picked a better illustration of the disparity I often struggle with in my life.
I think deep down we all want to be the heroes in our own stories. We all have demons we have to defeat and sacrifices to make. We all have love stories and want to go on adventures. And we all have one character who keeps coming around to try and take us out …
I have these two guys sitting on my desk to serve as a reminder of who I want to be and what it is I need to defeat to be that person.
Continuing the adventure,
Jesse
Jess Boctor 
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